Welcome back Mustangs! Whether you are a new student, or current student, we are always looking forward to helping our students grow. Students at Irwin Intermediate School can expect a variety of experiences from the counseling Department which strives to ensure our students are engaged daily.
Each month we encourage students to engage in exhibiting our monthly character traits that start in September with: Respect. The emphasis during the month of September will be Respectful behavior. Students will have the opportunity of nominating someone including themselves to have the photo taken, prize given and shared on the school news program for the select character trait.
Parents, as we get moving into the new school year 2024-2025, Irwin‛s Intermediate School would like to purposefully include supporting children/students holistically by providing some good resources regarding “sleep”. Sleep is critical to help maximize your child‛s functioning, decrease daytime fatigue, and support healthy immune functions. With the many activities at school, busy schedules at home, and other diverse needs of our military connected children/students have, sleep is sometimes overlooked. Coming off busy or not so busy summer schedules and routines at the beginning of the year can be a challenge. Helping our students learn healthy habits as it relates to sleep can ensure that they will become life-long advocates for sleep. Sleep research suggest that school aged children between (6-13), need between 9-11 hours of sleep. Are children getting anywhere close to this amount of sleep?
Here are (3) things you can do now to prepare your children for a more purposeful day.
1. Start by ensuring student are winding down for bed with routines that promote sleep at consistent times each night.
2. Provide an environment that supports good restful sleep to include, low lighting, no/minimum distractions that is cool and comfortable.
3. Encourage sleep when your child is drowsy and avoid after school naps that may disrupt sleep quality.
Irwin Intermediate School Counseling Department would like to support all our families. We look forward to discussing any issues that arise and ensure that our students are present daily, receive rigorous activities that challenge them to be their best version of themselves mentally, physically and educationally. We would also like to see our students arriving rested, focused and have the support they need to be productive life-long citizens.